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Victory: 12-day occupation of Holy Cross
Church in King's Cross, London, against police illegality and racism.
SAFETY
FIRST:
A petition to decriminalise sex work and prioritise safety
Since
1975, the International Prostitutes Collective has been campaigning
for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex
workers and our families, and for economic alternatives and higher
benefits and wages. No woman, child or man should be forced by poverty or violence into
sex with anyone. We provide information, help and support to individual
prostitute women and others who are concerned with sex workers’
human, civil, legal and economic rights.
The
English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) and the US PROStitutes
Collective (US PROS) are part of the International Prostitutes
Collective.
We are in touch with sex workers all over the world. The situation of those of us in Third
World countries and those of us who work the streets, often Black women,
other women of colour and/or immigrant women, has always been our starting
point. We are members of the
International Wages for Housework Campaign.
Since
8 March 2000 we have been participating in the
Global
Women’s Strike. Part of our work for the Strike 2003 was
to write, with others, an Open
letter to the Women’s Movement -
some
of those who claim to speak against violence against women picketed
a sex industry establishment
on International Women's Day,
when
most women, children and men are desperately trying to prevent the
war against Iraq.
Machismo
begins with the military, not with lap dancing.
Why prostitute
women are taking part in the Global Women's Strike
London
prostitutes stage Women's Day Strike, Newsday (Trinidad), March 2000
Hector
Breeze Cartoon to
commemorate the Occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross, King's Cross,
London, 17-29 November 1982, by the English Collective of
Prostitutes. Thanks to Hector Breeze for donating his cartoon, which first
appeared in The Guardian, 27 November 1982.

© the English
Collective of Prostitutes
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Guardian article 26 April 2007
Medical professionals press
for decriminalisation
British Medical
Journal
Barcelona Sex Workers on
Fines Strike
Why we withdrew from
the Capita Corporation's Conference
“Tackling Prostitution”
Operation
Pentameter:
Deportation is the real story
Letter to The Voice
Response to Home Office consultation on trafficking
April 2006
Mexico: Statement from the sex workers of Apizaco (Tlaxcala)
En
Espagnol and English)
Tijuana, Mexico: sex workers refuse to be driven off the streets
Plans threaten vulnerable sex workers
19 January 2006
Home Office announces crackdowns, compulsion and more
criminalisation for sex workers
28 December 2005
Police steal and threaten
in sex worker raids
30/12/2005
Trafficking Victim
Criminalised and Imprisoned,
Social Justice Network, Summer 2005
International Conference on Prostitution 2004
04/12/2004
en francais
italiano
Petition: Stop Violence Against Prostitutes
Implement SF Task Force Recommendations on Prostitution
Community Dialogues in San Francisco: Reports
09/06/2005
Letter to the European
Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration
10/10/2005
en français
italiano
espagnol
Press Release
on the conference
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